S 1685: Allows for additional or relocated motor vehicle dealers to be located within six or ten miles of one another when separated by the Hudson River.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1685 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 13, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to allowing additional or relocated motor vehicle dealers to be located within six or ten miles of one another when separated by the Hudson River The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 15 of section 462 of the vehicle and traffic 2 law, as added by chapter 490 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 15. "Relevant market area" means: 5 (a) if the proposed additional or relocated motor vehicle dealer is to 6 be located in a county having a population in excess of one hundred 7 thousand, the area within the radius of six miles of the intended site 8 of the proposed or relocated dealer. Such six mile distance shall be 9 determined by measuring the distance between the nearest surveyed bound- 10 ary of the existing new motor vehicle dealer's principal place of busi- 11 ness and the nearest surveyed boundary line of the proposed or relocated 12 new motor vehicle dealer's place of business; [or] 13 (b) if the proposed additional or relocated motor vehicle dealer is to 14 be within a county having a population of less than one hundred thou- 15 sand, the area within the radius of ten miles of the intended site of 16 the proposed or relocated dealer. Such ten mile distance shall be deter- 17 mined by measuring the distance between the nearest surveyed boundary 18 line of the existing new motor vehicle dealer's principal place of busi- 19 ness and the nearest surveyed boundary line of the proposed or relocated 20 new motor vehicle dealer's principal place of business[.]; or 21 (c) notwithstanding paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subdivision, if the 22 proposed additional or relocated motor vehicle dealer's relevant market 23 area under paragraphs (a) or (b) of this subdivision includes the Hudson 24 River, the area within ten miles of the intended site of the proposed or EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02353-01-5 
 S. 1685 2 1 relocated dealer on the opposite side of the Hudson River. Such ten 2 mile distance shall be determined by measuring the shortest distance a 3 vehicle could travel on roadways from the nearest surveyed boundary of 4 the existing new motor vehicle dealer's principal place of business and 5 the nearest surveyed boundary line of the proposed or relocated new 6 motor vehicle dealer's place of business. 7 In determining the population of a county, the most recent census by 8 the U.S. Bureau of Census or the most recent population update, either 9 from the National Planning Data Corporation or other similar recognized 10 source, shall be used. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.